Nam Fung Chang
Biographic Data
| ID | 6545748 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nam Fung Chang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nam Fung |
| FAMILY NAME | Chang |
| SIGNATURE | CHANG N F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lingnan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5703-4541 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Voices from the periphery
This paper critiques the relativist and post-colonialist view that blames the under-representation from peripheral cultures in international translation studies on Eurocentric biases. Western scholars who propound such a view underestimate the difficulties faced by scholars working in peripheral cultures, where freedom of information and of speech is often limited, non-conformity is discouraged, and the Western academic repertoire is not entirely…
A polysystemist’s response to prescriptive cultural relativism and postcolonialism
Translation studies and other disciplines in the humanities have become increasingly politicized as scholars act on the presumption that the dominance of Western theories is the result of power differentials rather than academic merit. This postcolonialist mindset is based on the claim that cultures are equally valid, but there are objective and cross-culturally intersubjective standards for comparing certain aspects of cultures. The problems wit…
Auto-image and norms in source-initiated translation in China
This article explores an area that has so far been under-researched in polysystem studies – literary translation initiated by the source culture. The case studied is translation of Chinese literature into English planned by the government of the People’s Republic of China. It is found that in such translations, some Chinese weights and measures were converted into British ones in the 1950s but increasingly conserved since the 1970s. In the meanti…
Towards a macro‐polysystem hypothesis
Some scholars who have taken the ‘cultural turn’ have abandoned Even‐Zohar's polysystem theory, which they feel to be limited as a framework for the study of translation in its socio‐cultural environment. However, their work seems to have become less systemic and less descriptivistic. Therefore, this article proposes an augmented version of the polysystem hypothesis. In the model proposed the political and the ideological polysystems, each consis…
Faithfulness, manipulation, and ideology
Translation in China has often been done in the service of ideology. This has affected not only the choice of text, but also translation strategies, as can be seen in a number of examples where the source texts were tampered with. However, mainstream translation poetics has always been concerned with the establishment of faithfulness as the overriding criterion for all translations, as if translation should or can be insulated from the interferen…
Voices from the periphery
This paper critiques the relativist and post-colonialist view that blames the under-representation from peripheral cultures in international translation studies on Eurocentric biases. Western scholars who propound such a view underestimate the difficulties faced by scholars working in peripheral cultures, where freedom of information and of speech is often limited, non-conformity is discouraged, and the Western academic repertoire is not entirely…
Faithfulness, manipulation, and ideology
Translation in China has often been done in the service of ideology. This has affected not only the choice of text, but also translation strategies, as can be seen in a number of examples where the source texts were tampered with. However, mainstream translation poetics has always been concerned with the establishment of faithfulness as the overriding criterion for all translations, as if translation should or can be insulated from the interferen…
Towards a macro‐polysystem hypothesis
Some scholars who have taken the ‘cultural turn’ have abandoned Even‐Zohar's polysystem theory, which they feel to be limited as a framework for the study of translation in its socio‐cultural environment. However, their work seems to have become less systemic and less descriptivistic. Therefore, this article proposes an augmented version of the polysystem hypothesis. In the model proposed the political and the ideological polysystems, each consis…
Auto-image and norms in source-initiated translation in China
This article explores an area that has so far been under-researched in polysystem studies – literary translation initiated by the source culture. The case studied is translation of Chinese literature into English planned by the government of the People’s Republic of China. It is found that in such translations, some Chinese weights and measures were converted into British ones in the 1950s but increasingly conserved since the 1970s. In the meanti…
A polysystemist’s response to prescriptive cultural relativism and postcolonialism
Translation studies and other disciplines in the humanities have become increasingly politicized as scholars act on the presumption that the dominance of Western theories is the result of power differentials rather than academic merit. This postcolonialist mindset is based on the claim that cultures are equally valid, but there are objective and cross-culturally intersubjective standards for comparing certain aspects of cultures. The problems wit…
Voices from the periphery
This paper critiques the relativist and post-colonialist view that blames the under-representation from peripheral cultures in international translation studies on Eurocentric biases. Western scholars who propound such a view underestimate the difficulties faced by scholars working in peripheral cultures, where freedom of information and of speech is often limited, non-conformity is discouraged, and the Western academic repertoire is not entirely…
Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Translation Studies and Practices (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Genetics (2 works) · Ideology (2 works)